Giddily married to her best friend. Texas native. A magazine editor. Novelist and writer. Working hard to become published. I'm delightfully whimsical, artsy and creative- almost to the point of sheer goofiness. I take frequent dance breaks wherever I am, whenever I can. My days are spent chasing my two Chihuahua puppies, Bitty and Bear. My motto: Be a happy duckie!
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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Tag

Jen at the lovely Tater Tots and Jello tagged me a few days ago. When I realized what picture I would have to reveal, I giggled. So instead of the story I was going to give you today, you get another story instead.

Admit it. You're curious what story you missed. Don't worry--it will be revealed soon!

The rules are:

1) I choose the 4th folder where I store my pictures on the computer.2. Select the 4th picture in the folder.3. Explain the picture.4. Tag 4 people to do the same.5. No cheating (cropping, editing, etc.)

Here's the fourth picture in my fourth folder:

When Ben and I went to Baylor, we didn't usually go to football games. The whole point of football games is to enjoy a rousing competition, and there was nothing to compete with Baylor. We lost almost every game. By halftime, you were either freezing with purple toes during a cold spell, or more likely sweating with your underwear stuck to your butt. And the Blond Duck doesn't do purple toes or sweaty underwear stuck to her butt. There were very few games in my college experience.

My senior year, my friend Val and her fiance David came up for the Baylor-UT game. I thought they were insane. Not only did they drive an hour and a half to go watch a game where we all knew what was going to happen, but they paid $80 per ticket.

But I'm not a Longhorn, so I suppose I don't understand.

Val and David had just gotten engaged. The plan was to stay until halftime, then Val and I would go shop for wedding dresses and bridesmaid dresses. The boys would watch television and scratch themselves until we returned to pour over more wedding magazines and discuss more wedding details.

34 comments:

Great tag Duckie! That looks quite painful! I don't do spectator sports either, although I do have to say they are a lot more fun to watch in person than on the telly! My parents watched Hockey Night in Canada every Saturday night the whole time I was growing up, and when the play offs were on, well . . . it took over our lives completely! I, myself prefer to watch cooking shows. Ok, so I am a sucker for figure skating, but that's a girl thing! Love ya to bits! XXOO Happy Saturday to all at the pond!

omgod! SO cute! when i first saw the pic of you in the bridesmaid dress, i noticed that you had tan marks. but it wasn't until i clicked on the picture did i realize that you were: RED. and then WHITE. (not really white, but u know what i mean - NORMAL color!)

LOL but u know what? you still have the biggest, brightest, sweetest smile even when you're sunburned.

when i'm sunburned, i'm kind of grimacing and staring at the camera. (with my mother yelling at me in the background, telling me about how i'm going to get SOOOO dark and how asian girls SHOULDN'T get dark and especially since i'm from taiwan and don't you want white skin? everyone there bleaches their skin and is going to ask you why you're SOOO dark as if you're working the rice fields...)

Aww...I feel for you with the sunburn! I have to deal with that a lot since my skin is so fair. I once drove all the way to Columbus (3 hours away) with my window down. My left arm ONLY was burnt to a crisp! I was going down there to spend a fun weekend with an old friend, but I was so embarrassed to go anywhere with my 2-toned body! haha. This post made me laugh :-)

Too funny! I had a very similar experience driving TO a wedding in a convertible and ending up attending said wedding with a pale stripe across my chest where the seatbelt had been. Whoops. Great story :)

I was in a wedding a month after getting my back burned in the Bahamas...the bride insisted our hair STILL be twisted into french twists. Argh...I don't have one photo of that wedding...and I don't regret it either!

Always such an excellent story teller. And it's good to know I'm in such good company with the not wanting my drawers to stick to my butt. I know I've had those sunburn days, too -- but it's more about having a lobster face. You're such a good friend, you are.

{{giggles}} too funny! What a great friend you are, your two favorite things in one day... ;) My maid of honor tore her ACL a few months before my wedding and had surgery - when she called to tell me, the first thing she said was, "I'll be able to walk in time for your wedding!" It cracked me up, as if that was what I was worried about!

OMG!!! Small world! This is ridiculous--I know Val, she's a friend of mine, we went to school together! LOL I was like...wait a minute, I know that girl grinning in the picture! She just had the cutest baby! :D Very very small world!